SET PAUSE ON

This has been around for a loooooong time.

But after a short chat with @oraclebase AKA Tim Hall yesterday, I thought I’d make sure we’re doing things right in the SQLDev tooling.

Tim uses it to make very nice, short, and sweet video demonstrations on his YouTube Channel. I highly recommend it. Anyways, back to PAUSE.

SET PAUSE ON [DOCS] in sql*plus allows a script to ‘pause’ until you hit ‘ENTER’ for it to continue.

We support this in SQLcl and SQL Developer now.

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Nothing fancy, but it can be good for demo’s or showing something to someone who can’t read at the speed of light.

And in SQL Developer too.

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Works best here if the lines don’t wrap…not sure how useful it is in SQL Developer, but it’s there.

SET PAUSE text works too!

SET PAUSE AreWeThereYet?

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Don’t make me turn this car around!

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The text is in the dialog/popup dialog…